Go Conference, the TAFES national conference, was held in Mwanza for 2020. A standout session was from Dr Charles Sokile on the call to urban ministry, ‘Go ye and make disciples… in the cities and urban places.’ Dr Sokile is a governance and development expert currently working as the Tanzania […]
I was part of a UK Twitter conversation about the place of the church and the ‘parachurch.’ Eddie Arthur then responded on his blog, and what he said got me thinking: DNA: you can trace the origins of church congregations back to the New Testament. There has been a lot […]
Think of a match and a candle. They both burn with a similar flame, but where the match burns itself out, the candle lasts. The match may burn more strongly, but it cannot last. Sometimes a person burning out may not seem to be in trouble – they may be […]
How have you been using debriefing and review? At TAFES Staff Orientation and Training, I spent a couple of hours with the staff team looking back over the academic year 2019-20. This year has come with a sense of three distinct seasons: pre-Corona, Corona (March-July), and post-Corona (July onwards, when […]
We’ve recently been hearing about the ways sacrificial love plays out in middle class Tanzanian marriages. And Tamie’s been reflecting on American Gospel, a polemical film dealing with prosperity teaching. And I’ve been thinking again about how my understanding of ‘weakness’ in the New Testament has changed. In Australia, we […]
This post puts in one place the six ‘Corona Creatures’ that Tamie collected to create with our kids. While there has been a whole variety of processing activities we did with them (one, two, three, four), our eldest told a friend that the creature crafts have been the key to […]
Below are three self-care resources I shared with TAFES staff workers as they began working from home and isolating themselves. 1. Look at your whole self There is more detail shared by psychologist Eileen Feliciano here in 25 brief tips for mental health during quarantine. 2. Look at your movement […]
